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"The maids are come!" he cried "Hurrah!" and stood up to wave his hat

"Huuess thy destination by thy hose Are they not 'those that were thy peach-colored ones'?"

"Oons! yes!" he answered, looking doith coarhed "Thou art a tardy bridegroolobe slept last night in Jamestown"

His face fell "I know it," he said ruefully; "but my doublet had more rents than slashes in it, and Martin Tailor kept it until cockcrow That fellow rolls in tobacco; he hath grown rich off our impoverished wardrobes since the ship down yonder passed the capes After all," he brightened, "the bargaining takes not place until towardThere's tireat sail and narrow craft carried hih, with a secret disquietude; for I had had a scurvy hope that after all I should be too late, and so the noose which I felt tightening about ainstthe peninsula andwhich crowded its waters It was as if every sloop, barge, canoe, and dugout between Point Comfort and Henricus were anchored off its shores, while above them towered the masts of the Marmaduke and Furtherance, then in port, and of the tall ship which had brought in those doves for sale The river with its dancing freight, the blue heavens and bright sunshine, the green trees waving in the wind, the stir and bustle in the street and allants, made a fair and pleasant scene As I drove my boat in between the sloop of the commander of Shirley Hundred and the canoe of the Nanse in the church began to peal and the dru ashore, I had a rear view only of the folk who had clustered along the banks and in the street, their faces and footsteps being with one accord directed toward the , jostled alike by velvet and dowlas, by youths with their estates upon their backs and naked fantastically painted savages, and trareedy citizens had planted the very street In the square I brought up before the Governor's house, and found myself cheek by joith Master Pory, our Secretary, and Speaker of the Assembly